What time do you wake up?

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – practice vocabulary related to living habits and explore sleep patterns and lifestyle choices;
• – improve understanding of reporting verbs through sentence completion, lexical range expansion, and reading comprehension activities;
• – watch a video about whether you can change your sleep schedule and engage in discussions about sleeping habits and lifestyle modifications.

In this Advanced lesson plan, students will practice vocabulary related to living habits. They will also improve their understanding of reporting verbs.

Warm-up 

Learners will complete a text by inserting appropriate verbs in the provided spaces.

Video 

Students will watch a clip called “Can you change your sleep schedule?” Following this, they’ll reconstruct sentences by filling in the missing words.

Grammar

This segment provides a concise overview of verbs used in reporting speech. It includes typical usage scenarios to facilitate comprehension.

Exercises 

In the initial task, students will complete sentences using reporting verbs.

The second exercise aims to broaden students’ lexical range by matching terms with their definitions.

Reading 

Here, students will go through a brief text about sleeping patterns. They’ll then answer follow-up questions.

Discussion 

The lesson wraps up with a conversation sparked by a well-known quote.